Nickel-coated silicon photocathode for water splitting in alkaline electrolytes

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1577-1583

  Feng, Ju ^a   Gong, Ming ^a   Kenney, Michael J ^a   Wu, Justin Z ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Li, Yanguang ^b   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

nickel; photoelectrochemical water splitting; silicon photocathode

Indexed keywords

EID: 84935889204     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0643-4     Document Type: Article

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